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LAND
Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1961
Achille Mbembe. Critique of Black Reason, 2017
EZLN (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional). Critical Though in the Face of the Capitalist Hydra: Contributions by the Sixth Commission of the EZLN. 2016
Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance, 2019
Ariella Azoulay, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, 2019
EDUCATION
la paperson, A Third University is Possible, 2017
Aracely Tinajero, El lector de tabaquería: historia de una tradición cubana, 2007
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: una reflección sobre prácticas y
discursos descolonizadores, 2011
Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, 1994
Paulo Freire, Pedagogia do Oprimido, 1968
Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1971
ECONOMY
Denise Ferreira da Silva, A Dívida Impagável, 2019
David Graber. Debt: the last 5,000 years, 2011
Pyotr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution, 1902
Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867
W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1935
Sayak Valencia, Capitalismo Gore, 2010
Rocío Zambrana, Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico, 2021
BODY
Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977
Angela Davis, Women, Race & Class, 1983
Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, Body and Primitive Accumulation, 1988
Raquel Salas Rivera, The Tertiary, 2018
Édouard Glissant, Poétique de la relation (Poétique III), 1990
Sylvia Wynter, Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World
IMAGINATION
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, 1993
Karen Lord, Unraveling, 2019
Luisa Capetillo, La Humanidad en el futuro, 1910
Ana Lydia Vega, Encancaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio, 1983
Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, 1968
Luis Othoniel Rosa, Down with Gargamel, 2020
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Bio
WAI Architecture Think Tank is a planetary studio questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism. Founded in Brussels in 2008 by Puerto Rican architect, artist, curator, educator, author and theorist Cruz Garcia and French architect, artist, curator, educator, author and poet Nathalie Frankowski, WAI is one of their several platforms of public engagement that include Beijing-based anti-profit art space Intelligentsia Gallery, and the free and alternative education platform and trade-school Loudreaders. They are authors of Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto (nai010 Publishers, 2020) Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture (Artifice Books on Architecture / China Architecture and Building Press), A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education (Loudreaders) and the upcoming book From Black Square to Black Reason: A Post-Colonial Architecture Manifesto. Their work has been featured at the inaugural Chicago Biennial, and shows at MoMA NY, Neues Museum Nuremberg, MAAT Lisbon, and more. Garcia and Frankowski are Associate Professors at Iowa State University.
